After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to the back of my head until Rob Starr reminded me about the problem tonight.
Here’s the problem. After leaving a comment you are sent to http://www.bloggingtips.com/wp-comments-post.php, which is a blank page. If you go back a page and reload then you should see your comment but that page should be redirecting you back to the blog post with your comment on it.
I’ve only had this problem after updating to WordPress 2.9. However, it’s clear from reading the WordPress support forums that this is a problem that many people have had for a year or so. My hope was for this article to be an explanation of how you can resolve this problem. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to fix it as yet.
If you have had this problem and fixed please share the process you went through to resolve it. I’m sure many readers, and myself, would be very grateful.
Here are a few steps I have taken to try and resolve this problem. Many people have reported them working for them but none have resolved the issue for me.
- Repaired the comments table via PHPMyAdmin
- Made sure my comments.php template was up to date and removed whitespace from the wp-comments-post.php template
- Disabled the Akismet Plugin (Not sure if this is necessary but a few people said it was causing the blank page for them)
- Used theme test drive to try out another theme to see if the problem was related to the comments.php code
Unfortunately, most of the threads over at WordPress are incomplete with the blogger either not getting his problem resolved, or resolving it and not coming back to explain how he fixed it.
The last thing I can think is causing this is a probllem with database memory. Though if that was the case my other blogs would probably be having this problem too and they’re not. Plus, it’s always best to exhaust all other options before going to your host for help as they can’t be expected to resolve script issues like this.
I do apologise for any inconvenience caused by commentating at the moment. You can leave a comment but you will probably just get sent to that white page so please make sure you hit your back button after submitting your comment.
Again, any feedback on fixing this error would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
I have been getting these errors for the last 2 years and it is surprising wordpress has not officially found a solution for this yet. Thee errors still continue. Some possible fixes in comments here
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/10/g…
We'll see how this one goes.
I'm so glad we have a WP guru around. I'd rather read your fixes than the ones at WordPress.
Thanks for the great stuff!
Thanks for the link. Though I couldn't see anything on that article which helped with resolving this.
Strange, the above comment posted there with no problems. Is anyone having a problem posting comments? If so, please let me know here
I just commented on the other post (about scheduling issues) and it posted fine.
We'll see how this one goes.
I'm so glad we have a WP guru around. I'd rather read your fixes than the ones at WordPress.
Thanks for the great stuff!
So far, so good. It seems to be working.
I've had a very similar problem, too. Today I found the solution, which was connected to the line
<code><input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="ID; ?>" /></code>
in the comment template. Since this line is present twice in your source code (once with and once without a value), my guess is that this was causing your problem, too.
See here for details: http://blog.ginchen.de/en/2010/01/16/leere-seite-…
Ooo IC, so that is the problem, thanks for tips
This helped me to, thanks!
I get this error a lot when doing blog comments. I always thought it was my end. Thanks for letting me know its a WP glitch.
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I'm also getting this a lot when I try to comment on blogs. I would really love a solution for this so I still comment on the blog.
I was having this issue with several of the blogs I frequent. Anyone know if there is a patch/fix out for this?
Hello,
I was also facing the same problem in my blog. But your suggestion fixed it. Thank you
any news? Im having this problem in many of my blogs
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I've been getting this blank page as well — does it have something to do with Akismet?
So this is what happens to it…i have been experiencing that kind of problem and I thought i was blocked or something.keep on updating us on this, Kevin. Thanks!
I also having this problem before, what I found is my wp-comments-post.php template is blank, I just copy all code from default template and it solve the problem
Nothing I found online worked for me, so I just did this as a patch:
in the file, wp-comments-post.php
before final line, ?>
Add
header( "Location: ./?page_id=".$comment_post_ID."" ) ;
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the heads up. Do you think this has anything to do with which browser someone is using?
I also tried all possible solutions and until now, I still can't solve this problem. O_O
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thanks for this solution but i am still unable to solve it.
i will try again.. http://www.mediapublishing.com.sg
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this really frustrating, i have a lot of comments gone to waste because of this unusual scenario on word press. I hope anyone will find a solution for this.
This is what piss me off most ! How can I post a comment if like 5 pages ( last 5 pages ) which I commented get blank
. Some of the users have their comments there – is this happens only for a some of users?
I`m in the same situation , nothing works !
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Blank page is problem and I notice such behavior on several sites. You post gives an answer and I'm wonder how to diagnose a problem on my own site. All I can do is to monitor comment activity …
Anyway, thank you for sharing …
Cheers!
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hmm, so I guess it is a bug in wp then?
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I am facing same problem. From last few days I am facing same problem.
Is this a problem due to WordPress?
I have the same problem with many blog. It is very strange that I see many other comments posted successfully before me, but when I leave a comments, it show blank page and don't show my comments.
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I thought this was down to me being blocked. I haven't been able to post stuff to various different blogs
I am having troubles posting to several WP sites. I will try the back-reload to see if I can get my comments posted. Thanks.
I don't think it is a "bug"
It is preventing spam comments, hence akismet is causing the problem.
You or your ip has been commenting on too many wordpress blogs… It doesn't have to be the same blog as akismet is 3rd party.
It could be the url you are using for the website or the type of comment you are using
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Hey Kevin thanks for letting us comment on here.
Do you still have this problem in WordPress 3.0.3?
Thanks
Phillipe.
This actually occur to me more often every time I post a comment on old blogs. However, I don't encounter this problem whenever I post a comment on new blogs. I initially thought that it's WP's spam deterrent system but after reading this post I realized that its a common problem for many bloggers like myself.
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I have fixed the problem by adding the "the_post();" at the top of the php file.
this is happening to me all the time, eveytime i leave a comment, i just get sent to an empty page, an my comments never get sent
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For some strange reason, I am still having this problem. And I'm using the latest version of WordPress: 3.0.
No matter what I do – I seem to stumble upon that blank page wherever I leave a comment. And that is insanely annoying. Especially when you're not even spamming.
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I've been facing the same problem, and I solved it by deactivating the akismet plugin.
Also when I commented in a couple of blogs, I found that from my office computer it was giving me a blank page, but from my laptop at home it was fine, so I guess the computer or maybe the IP is related (maybe akismet didn't like the IP when I was at my office, hehe)
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This solution worked for me like a charm, my comments weren't posting, nor was I able to access wp-admin or submit any data or forms for that matter…
take a look at your functions.php file and make sure the are NO spaces at the top or bottom.
I had the same issue, I was not able to login to my wp-admin section and this fixed it.
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